Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since most of the injuries stem from sloppy individual technique caused by poor condition, the Varsity trainer encourages his charges to get into top physical shape and stay that way all season, with no letdowns for "just one Lucky or one quick beer." The only time a player may legitimately partake of anything stronger than rootbeer is when he's flat on his back on the field inhaling from a bottle of ammonia. On this point, the Varsity footballers agree. "What the hell," most of them will tell you, "it's just common sense...
Musingly, Vag turned the page of his new gray course catalogue, and began to cross Harvard Square. An indignant honking from two sides made him look up, and he took a quick jump to the middle of the road, where he shrunk to avoid the passing cars. A booming amplified voice reached his cars; it seemed to be asking questions of someone. "Where do you think you're running to? Can't you wait for the lights? Are you stupid?" Vag looked around him, and realized in terror that the odd catechism was directed at himself. But now the lights...
...last, announced the persistent U.S. Department of Agriculture last week, there is a quick, sure method of hybridizing bees...
...biggest difficulty is trying to forget that he is a shortstop. Fielding ground balls, he scoops them up as if he had a quick throw to make. And because he does not crouch down to block the ball, a lot of grounders dribble between his legs. He also can't seem to break his habit of catching put-out throws two-handed. The Cardinals' Stan Musial, for example, gets a far longer reach by taking throws singlehanded...
...idea. Says Heisenberg: "The undertaking [of making an atomic bomb] could not even be initiated against the psychological background of the men responsible for German war policy. These men expected an early decision of the war, even in 1942, and any major project which did not promise quick returns was specifically forbidden...